today on gardening with Greg we're gonna talk all things peas English peas and
cowpeas now down here in the south and we hear the term peas we think field
peas or cowpeas that's our terminology that we use when we talk about peas up
north when they say peas they're talking about it English pea and it's just
different for where you live now for us to grow English peas we have to grow
them in the fall or early spring and then we switch over and we have to
grow our field peas or our cowpeas such as pinkeye purple hull or whatever now we
love to eat those in the summertime with some onion cut up in them absolutely
delicious it's our summer delight now my favorite pea, cowpea or field pea it's
summertime it's a variety we like the plant because it's easy to harvest and
it's easy to shell when you plant them they put on the pea at the very top kind
of fold over so they easy to get to and they easy to pick and it's a purple hull
but it's classified as a pinkeye it's a green pea but when you cook it it makes
a clear broth they're absolutely delicious but the best of all is that
easy to harvest it easy to show I'm planting the summertime but I'm also
planting a variety that was given to us by a family that's had this pea in their
family for years and years really didn't have a name but what's unusual about it
it is a climbing pea or a trellis in pea which is nearly unheard of so what I'm
gonna do is I'm gonna plant them about four inches apart about three quarters
of an inch to an inch deep and as soon as they come up then I'm gonna put my
trellises up my cow panels and these peas will grow up on these cow panels
and I can pick them standing up so I'm gonna use my Hoss Seeder today to plant
these peas and I checked my seed plates and the number five it's perfect for
what I need just got six holes in there some spaces about three and a quarter
inches apart which is pretty good and I'm gonna plant my row spacings on four
foot apart that'll give me room to get inside there
inside those trellises and have a little room when it
it's time to harvest on all right so I'm gonna put my plate in there move it
around so it catches, the cone, then I'm gonna put my brush in now I want that
brush good and snug down I don't want it too tight but yet I want it tight enough
so that holds that plate down there gives my wing net here's my depth
adjustment knob I got it set it about 3/4 of an inch depth
I'm gonna put me some of these peas in there now I don't like to use my
hopper cover when I plant them I just use my hopper cover when I'm storing it
to keep spiders and dirt out there I like to keep the hopper cover
off of it when I'm planting that way see what's going on now I plant these peas
on drip tape because it's going to be nearly impossible to water overhead with
sprinkler I'm expecting these things to get about this tall so drill tape it's
going to be the ticket the water or anything and conserve that water and put
that water right at the root system and I'm going to use my Hoss Seeder and
I'm gonna plant directly on top of this drip tape I got my tape bury at about
two inches and I'm gonna plant these peas about 3/4 of an inch deep so I got
plenty of room to work with
if you grow field peas or cow peas you will know exactly what I'm talking about
when I talk about how good they are if you don't grow give them a try you'll be
surprised how well you like them we're there you have it folks hope you enjoy
this week's show and get off that couch it's time to get out here and get to work
in the garden we'll see you next week on gardening with greg